Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 6): High Availability

In the final part of this Storage Virtualization Series, I’ll be discussing the High Availability (HA) capabilities of each of the products.  This section will be most important to customers who prize maximum uptime above all other considerations—even storage efficiency. 

This post will be broken down into several key HA areas.

Redundancy: Can . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 6): High Availability

Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 5): Data Protection

In this part of the Storage Virtualization Showdown series I will focus on Data Protection Capabilities between the 4 platforms.  As datasets grow larger and become more difficult to protect and recover with traditional backup means, organizations will need to increasingly deploy array-based data protection.  Array-based data protection, when implemented as part of a . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 5): Data Protection

Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 4): Storage Efficiency

In this part of the Storage Virtualization Showdown series, I’ll be focusing on Storage Efficiency.  A successful storage virtualization implementation will not only enable the management and simplified movement of storage between external arrays, but also provide a robust set of capabilities that actually maximize the utilization of the back-end equipment.

I’ll be breaking . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 4): Storage Efficiency

Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 3): Data Mobility

In this part of the Storage Virtualization Showdown series, I’ll be discussing storage virtualization capabilities that enhance the commoditization of storage

Why Data Mobility?

Before we can take advantage of the performance and technological enhancements of new storage equipment, and benefit from the better cost structures of more efficient and dense hardware, we must . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 3): Data Mobility

Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 2): Architecture Overview

This post is part of a series comparing leading storage virtualization solutions.  In this post I’ll review the architecture of each platform and discuss pros and cons in relation to how they are managed.  The architecture plays a big part in all areas of this series, so the concepts discussed here will be carried . . . → Read More: Storage Virtualization Showdown (Part 2): Architecture Overview